Your adoption pack:

Adélie penguins depend on sea ice for their main food source - krill. But parts of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean are warming rapidly, which is affecting the penguins' feeding grounds. Help us protect the penguins and their habitat.

How you're helping the penguins

Improving the management of Antarctica’s resources and safeguarding its wildlife

Establishing a network of marine protected areas covering at least 10% of the 20 million km2 Southern Ocean

How your adoption can help:

£330 could pay for a reusable Time-depth-recorder, which tracks a penguin when it’s diving at sea

£50 could give scientists callipers to measure penguin beaks and wing rulers – both of which help find out a penguin’s sex and age.

£36 (or £3 a month) could buy transponders with unqiue IDs for tracking nine penguins during their whole life

£10 could help scientists sampling to determine the gender of one penguin

£80 could contribute towards a VHF marine radio handset to ensure the safety of researchers in the field

£60 (or £5 a month) could pay for aircraft time to access remote penguin colonies

The penguins of Adélie land

You can adopt five Adélie penguins – a mix of male and female individuals from a colony of 500-600 at the Dumont d’Urville base on Pointe Géologie archipelago, in an area of the Antarctic known as Adélie land. We are monitoring the colony to find out how they are adapting to climate change.